[issue5504] ctypes should work with systems where mmap can't be PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC

[Ronald Oussoren]

Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> added the comment:

Fixing the alloc_closure error is easy enough:


Index: ../setup.py
===================================================================
--- ../setup.py	(revision 84528)
+++ ../setup.py	(working copy)
@@ -1653,7 +1653,9 @@
                    '_ctypes/callbacks.c',
                    '_ctypes/callproc.c',
                    '_ctypes/stgdict.c',
-                   '_ctypes/cfield.c']
+                   '_ctypes/cfield.c',
+                   '_ctypes/malloc_closure.c',
+                   ]
         depends = ['_ctypes/ctypes.h']
 
         if sys.platform == 'darwin':


That's not enough to make it possible to build ctypes on OSX though, I now get the same error for a different symbol:


*** WARNING: renaming "_ctypes" since importing it failed: dlopen(build/lib.macosx-10.6-fat-3.2/_ctypes.so, 2): Symbol not found: _ffi_prep_closure_loc
  Referenced from: /Users/ronald/Projects/python/python-3.x/build/build/lib.macosx-10.6-fat-3.2/_ctypes.so
  Expected in: flat namespace
 in /Users/ronald/Projects/python/python-3.x/build/build/lib.macosx-10.6-fat-3.2/_ctypes.so

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nosy: +ronaldoussoren

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